Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
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> I think I mentioned on the list a couple weeks ago that I favor just 
> expanding the definition of link power management to include
> the notion of simply powering the entire port off rather
> than adding new knobs to sysfs.  I wrote this completely untested and
> very incomplete patch to give you a better idea of what I am proposing.
> This patch adds a new valid value of "power_off" for the existing
> link_power_management_policy sysfs entry:

Looks fine to me...  that would work nicely.

I think your patch is missing code to handle the transition from 
power_off to <something else>, though, right?

I'm quite happy with this approach.

	Jeff



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